Quotes by : John Adams

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope....

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government....

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood,....

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all....

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak,....

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.